Lina Petrošienė

Lina Petrošienė is an Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Baltic Linguistics of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Klaipėda University (Lithuania). His research explores the ethnic musik, folklore and cultural processes. Past work has focused on the ethnic music  and customs of Lithuania Minor (Prussian Lithuania). Her current work is focused on the Shrovetide in Lithuania and Europe, examining songs of carnival characters in the sociocultural context. She is the author of two monographs (Klaipėda University Press, 2007, 2015), compiler of six songbooks (1997, 2006, 2009, 2010 (2), 2017).